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| Warner Bros | Release Date: July 24, 1987 |
Starring:
Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder
Summary:
The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man.
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As the hero, Christopher Reeve oozes with sincerity in the world-peace scenes - he helped write the story of the film, and this may be why he overdoes it. But he's also funny when he gets back to being klutzy Clark Kent, so the movie doesn't completely drown in its own good intentions.
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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace doesn't attempt to disguise its sentiments - no more so than Greenpeace - but neither does it lose the campy spirit of the 1978 original. Although never as stylish as the first movie, it shows verve and a modest wit. Superman IV is not as funny as the first sequel, but it isn't as violent, either. [27 July 1987, p.1D]
Director Sidney J. Furie, whose previous career high-point was either The Ipcress File or Lady Sings the Blues, fumbles the tone as badly as Richard Lester did in Superman III, veering drunkenly from action/adventure to comedy. Gone is the sense of naïve grandeur that made the original Superman such an endearing production.
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Superman IV is a pathetic appendage to the series, a dull, shoddy film that makes the minimal 1950s TV series seem
rife with production values by comparison. [27 July 1987, p.10C]
Sequels to big-budget popular hits usually end up super-slick, shallow and inflated. But this one isn't even super-slick; it's shallow and deflated...The overall effect is of a story atomized and dying before our eyes, collapsing into smashed pulp, ground down into big-budget Kryptonite ash. [27 July 1987, p.1]
Aug 6, 2014
Stunning. I've never seen anything like this. This is better than all of the other movies coming out these days. Probably my favoritest movie ever in the entire universe.
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Apr 24, 2023
For me, Superman 4 isn't as bad as I remember and it was VERY cheap, but was trying to show the love for the first 2 Superman movies
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Aug 20, 2013
The series seems to have dwindled short on ideas in this fourth installment. The plot isn't creative, the special effects are sorely dated, and the entire cast seems uninterested. It's safe to say that enough is enough.
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Jan 13, 2021
The series seems to have dwindled short on ideas in this fourth installment. The plot isn't creative, the special effects are sorely dated, and the entire cast seems uninterested. It's safe to say that enough is enough.
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Mar 20, 2016
If you want a inspiring super hero to have a movie full of terrible special effects, a terrible story, and some of the dumbest things superman has ever done, then we have the movie for you.
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